Is it fair that high school students get a student discount?

[BubbaStrangelove]

Student, military, and senior discounts are rewards for people who are or have contributed to society. It's messed up that this reward is extended to high schoolers, because they HAVE to go to school. I guess, yeah, technically they are students, but still.....

My main beef, I suppose, is that here you have people who generally have zero expenses, and they are getting the break, because of some semantic loop hole.

Anyway - I don't want to see anyone here have to dish out more cash - this was just a rant, and I feel better about it all after sharing this brief thought. Really, it's a cool perk, and if a discount can keep a kid in a theater instead of on the streets. Yeah! :)

[Gollum]

I like the discount. WHy? Because I'm a high school student, and that's just fine by me.

~word~

[The Handeman]

Originally posted by Gollum
I like the discount. WHy? Because I'm a high school student, and that's just fine by me.

~word~

AMEN TO THAT

GO STUDENTS!

[Ronaldinho]

The whole idea of discounts--be they student or senior (I've never seen military discounts at a movie theater) is the notion that these are people without a lot of disposable income, not neccesarily through any fault of their own.

(While it's true that many students could get a job after school, it's not at all clear that doing so would be in their best long-term interests).

I don't see how college students are helping society in some way that high schoolers aren't. Those discounts aren't a reward.

(Actually, truth be told, they're a form of what economists call price discrimination. How do you make people who have more money pay more for something? Book publishers do it with hardcover and softcover books--richer folks are more likely to buy hardcover. Theater owners do it with student discounts. The point isn't neccesarily to save studentsa buck or two, but to soak people with jobs for an extra $2.)

[Adam J. Hakari]

I wish I had discounts over here. The closest I've come to it is the manager knocking two bucks off the evening admission price for me when I went to MONSTERS, INC. because I had to wait outside in the freezing cold and snow.

[BubbaStrangelove]

Originally posted by Gollum
I like the discount. WHy? Because I'm a high school student, and that's just fine by me.

~word~


Hell yeah! :)

[BubbaStrangelove]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ronaldinho
I've never seen military discounts at a movie theater

Come to think of it, I'm not sure if they do that anymore. I know they used to because my uncle is military and I remember him always flashing his ID. Hmmm. I'm gonna look out for that now.




I don't see how college students are helping society in some way that high schoolers aren't.


Well, this may be a bit absract, but high schooler's educations are supported through tax dollars (generally), where as college students pay for their own education. The reason high schoolers are supported is because the government had defined that a high school education is necessary to become a productive member of society. Now, someone who is going to college, will in theory get a higher paying job which provides greater services to the community. They are doing this on their own will - and to me that is the key. The people are at college because (generally) they want to better themselves. People who better themselves help society.

I was sort of in the air to make that statement, because I know that many high schoolers volunteer and do community service, which is of great help to society. But again, we are not giving volunteers the discount - just the students as a whole.

I also want to make clear that I'm not implying the only way to better society is to go to college. No way.

My point in all that is just saying high schoolers are extended the same privledges as college students. But whereas it makes sense why college students get the discount - I see little to no reason why HSers get it.

And again, like I said, I'm not hoping that this cool perk gets taken away from the high schoolers. I'm just seeing what you all think of this.

I think it's way cool that the high schoolers who have responded are appreciative of their discount, and aren't treating it like it's due to them. :) That justifies the discount to me, because it lets me know that it's not being taken for granted.

But I bet there are lots of non-schmoes who do take it for granted. I think schmoes have a certain quality.


What do you all make of this -

Children get dicounted tickets. The theaters know that a parent has to bring the child, and will have to pay the adult price. In a way, it seems like they are banking that a parent will be like, "Oh $4 that's not bad to take little Tommy to the movies."

Then when they get there they are like, "$7.50! Well, now I have no choice."


Argh! I know everyone really just hates the prices.

"$8 for Die Another Day? Can't I just give you a quarter, and just watch Hally Berry come out of the water?" (heh - chris rock ref.)

[electriclite]

Dammit I think college students should have a discount as well, but unfortnately in NYC they don't even have student discounts, so I'm screwed either way and still have to fork out $10. In Miami though, I could just quickly flash my college ID, and they'd give me a discount thinking it was a high school ID. Probably the only good thing about the place I can remember.....



What's always bothered me though was that back in Miami, when I was going to Jr. college, only high school students got discounts on the transit buses! WTF?! I have to pay for books, supplies, tuition, even the Scantrons to take tests and most of these little fucks (no offense, this is a rant after all) don't even have to pay for anything while in school, and they get a discount!

Come the fuck on!!

[Kastman]

well my discount thing backfired.

I was 14 and had to be 15 to get into certain movies so i changed my birthdate on my id card, well i did that for a while. But now i have turned 15 , it says i am 16 so until i get a new id card thing i have to pay extra.:D im such a fool.

coz here, if you are 12-15 i think its 8.50 and 16+ is 10.50

[Moviefan1234]

Dishonesty backfires Kastman. :)

[Jason Voorhees]

Originally posted by Moviefan1234
Dishonesty backfires Kastman. :)

"If honestly is the best policy, then, by default, dishonestly is the second best policy. Second isn't bad".

:D.

[bob]

We have plenty of expenses! I mean, I need to buy DVD's, and I go to lunch at the sports bar every week(god bless open campus'). Oh, and sometimes I have to buy a soda.

"students have no expenses" yeah, right:p

[KcMsterpce]

I hated the fact that highschoolers got a discount because I DROPPED OUT, was working AND GOT NO DISCOUNT!
Then I went to college, was working two jobs and was STILL poor, and got less discounts than when I was a senior in high school (for the senior discount)!!

OK seriously. In California I got a discount at a San Francisco theater for flashing my college ID card. Students only paid $7.50 instead of $9.50. Pfft. Still too much for a STUDENT.
Now I'm military. I get a military discount at every theater I've been to here in Hawaii. I pay $6.00 instead of $7.50. That's not a bad deal, yo!

Is it unfair that high school kids get discounts? Yes, sorta. When I was in high school all my friends worked at places I liked to go to, and I could always get a 'discount' if I asked for it. No need to make it official.

[BubbaStrangelove]

Yeah, it's not really fair, but not really too big a deal.

The bigger problem is what Ron was talking about - the price discrimination.

[freakandgeek]

actually, i never really cared. its not that big of a deal to me. but one thing that is weird, is how come everyone pays the same during the day and its different at night? hm.....just makes me want to see movies during the day., thats all!

[BubbaStrangelove]

actually my wife and I were talking last night about how we generally prefer matinees.

night movies are good for going out with friends, but in the day time, I feel that I get more out of the movie because I'm not fighting against being tired.

Then in the days, you see the movie, and have the rest of the day to think and talk about it.

With night shows I usually end up drunk and passed out. Then the next day am like, "man, that movie seemed long!"

[happy OUT here]

I live in Oklahoma, where college students DO get a discount as well as high school students. I believe this is the way to do it. Too bad I am too old.

[blankpage]

Well being a mad student I like the discounts. I don't even need a fucking card. Sometimes though they charge me the full 10 smackers. But most of the time I pay $8.50. I like it becuase then I can get more damn food, which is another topic.

[cereal killer]

I was a high school student and the only thing I ever got a dicount on was my damn Bus pass. Movies cost me the full 11$ and that's before food, that's why I don't buy anything at the theater.

[El Bracamonti]

student discounts kick ass!

[Big Pudge]

im in college, and i use my college id for student discount, and i am ever so greatful!!! 1 cuz 2 tix reg price = 1 slurpee 2 straws

2 tix student discount price= 2 slurpees!!

now every1 once in a while the one slurp 2 straw comes into play (usually when she drags me to those romantic movies of hers)_!!

[Jerk Shapiro]

I think a ticket for me costs maybe 6.75, yeah.

Then 80 bucks for the medium coke and small, inadequate bag of "Reece's Peices".

So, yeah, go student discounts!

I'm a student, btw.

[Horror whore]

Huh? There's no student discounts in my town! I still have to pay the lousy $9 for an evening showing or $6 for a matinee!

[Girlntereptid13]

yeah sure, i enjoy student discounts (obviously because i'm a student), but the whole social discrimination thing sounds wrong... until you consider the fact that paying $9.50 for a fucking pointless hollywood retread is ridiculous... it's just wrong. why the fuck are the prices always going up? it's ludicrous.

[noisy_brut]

I have nothing against it...It's just marketing. If theaters don't need to bring the college students in, they don't give the discount, if they need the students then they do. More power to em. I can always go to a matinee and get four dollars off.

[Lindsey]

Us High Schoolers deserve a student discount! (For all the pain and suffering due to homework ;))

Here in Oregon, a student discount is $5.50, while a non-student ticket is $7.50. So it really pays off to be a student.